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Laine 🕷️
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Any prns, Amateur Artist, Poultry Peddler, Devil Worshipper, Jumping Spider Mom, ⚛️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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This is what Jupiter looks like in the infrared.

Its hot, lower atmosphere shining through the cooler cloud layers above.

You show me Jupiter and I'll show you a planet that wants you dead.
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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You may never know how much your words meant to someone.

Maybe they were having a hard day and your kindness reminded them they weren’t invisible.

The smallest gestures can hold so much power.

Never underestimate how much good you can bring to the world.
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Seeing some beautiful photos of aurorae tonight, so here's a reminder that other planets get them, too!

This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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"Gay people should just create their own stuff" Webfishing dev got doxxed because their game was too gay, you guys literally don't let us have anything
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Sorry, not a drawing.

It's a low poly pixel art.

I can't resist a cutie robot.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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that's one of mine that, if i'm not mistaken 🫡
this is literally never not accurate
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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SCOTUS declined to hear the challenge meant to overturn Obergefell. Which means marriage equality stays. Heritage Foundation and other Christian nationalists were counting on this case to roll back rights. Welp…Not today!
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Hey, have some *good* political news this morning: SCOTUS has declined to hear a case that was viewed as a possible vehicle to overturn Obergefell and gay marriage:

apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Coming tomorrow night at 9PM EST...

I've been teasing this for a year and a half...

Caine hosts a DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game for the Digital Circus cast!! Surely nothing too silly will happen... right?

Check it out on @MarissaLenti's stream!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Od...
The Amazing Digital Circus: Digital Dungeon Danger
YouTube video by Vixen the Reindeer
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Happily out of touch with the world for a few days. Greetings from the Quiet Zone 🌿
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I wouldn't think bears can just float like that. Interesting!
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The Peaceful Calm Between Worlds

#pixelart
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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November 5, 2025 8:00pm edt
Full Beaver Super Moon
Jacksonville, FL
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Had to share this from twitter just because
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Worldbuilding problem #137: my original setting lacks any obvious analogue of Christianity, but I still need my protagonist to experience Catholic guilt.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Gix Busok with an Avocado costume

It's a community in-joke, go watch Mau Makan Apa by the way, very astounding animation
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
My Jax pumpkin from Halloween :) #tadc
November 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM